227/08 Social challanges s the basis for foresight - Gaia

Society based on energy and material efficiency – introduction
Area 1: Housing, spatial planning and infrastructures
Statements
E1.1 Smart homes and smart offices, in which electronics, media, and internet
are seamlessly connected, and the system controls and optimises also lightning
and temperature taking into account circumstances and need.
E1.2 Application of prediction and assessment technologies and processes in
planning that are useful for the minimization of environmental burdens on spatial
planning.
E1.3 A design scheme for civil engineering structures and buildings that adopts
the concept of life cycle assessment (LCA).
E1.4 Applying planning approaches and technological solutions reduce energy
consumption per capita in new housing areas (including heating, lightning, appliances,
local transport of goods and people, etc.) in Finland by half.
E1.5 LED-technology is the leading technology for lightning in homes, offices
etc.
E1.6 Technology that allows waste treatment and recycling to be performed locally
by each house or household to eliminate emissions and the need for collection.
E1.7 Passive solar energy is used largely in housing.
E1.8 New technology related to use of water (e.g. low water or waterless cleaning
clothes, dish washing etc.) and in waste water systems lead to a significant reduction
in the amount of waste water (prevention of waste water as a guiding principle).
E1.9 In the dense housing areas transportation of the recyclables and disposable
wastes are organized by so called central vacuum waste sorting/transpartion system.
E1.10 Technology for the early detection of and response to large-scale forest
fires around the world.
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